"Outbreak! New York 1779" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Jan 2021 10:10 p.m. PST |
""The number of sick increasing every day, in all the different Camps of the army," wrote Capt. John Peebles in his diary on September 5, 1779.[1] Encamped on Manhattan Island eight miles north of the city of New York, at the time rural farmland, the army was beginning to suffer from the consequences of an unusually rainy and windless summer. On August 24 Peebles, who commanded the grenadier company of the 42nd Regiment of Foot, part of the army's grenadier battalion, noted that the light infantry battalion was moving to Long Island from the "wet swampy ground" they had been camped upon because men in the battalion were getting sick.[2] Seven days later he wrote, "The Men growing very sickly within these few days, a general complaint over the whole army, they are mostly taken with headache & universal pain a chill & feverishness, which for the most part turns into a quotidian or tertian intermittent, & some few are rather with the flux." Twelve men in his one-hundred-man company had fallen ill, six within the last twenty-four hours.[3] It was only the beginning. Techniques for keeping an army healthy were well-known to the British army in America. A century of corporate knowledge was reinforced by a host of textbooks that aggregated experience from Europe's professional armies. For the most part, officers knew how to choose ground for encampments and cantonments based on prevailing winds and sunlight as well as tactical considerations, and the importance of things like drainage, refreshing the straw used for tent and barrack bedding, burying offal and waste well away from habitations, frequently relocating "necessary houses" (latrines), and providing adequate ventilation in hospitals and barracks, was well known. When the weather and location permitted, soldiers bathed regularly in rivers or the sea. It was rare for sickness to ravage the British armies in Canada and New York. But the autumn of 1779 was different…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
WillBGoode | 19 Jan 2021 10:54 p.m. PST |
I would need what Don would say? He did say when asked it was polite to give credit when you take an article and post it elsewhere. |
Brechtel198 | 20 Jan 2021 4:09 a.m. PST |
The article is from the Journal of the American Revolution. It's in the link, and that gives credit from the source of the article. |
FusilierDan | 20 Jan 2021 5:27 a.m. PST |
I've always thought the "link" beneath the copied part was the way to show where the information was from and to let you quickly get to it if you wanted to read more. Clicking the also give the site you're going to stats on traffic and users. Holding your cursor over the link will give the full address. |
Extrabio1947 | 20 Jan 2021 7:09 a.m. PST |
+1 FusilierDan. That's what I always do, and it hasn't failed me yet 😄 |
John the OFM | 20 Jan 2021 8:14 a.m. PST |
Cell phones don't have cursors. One sentence. He's never done it, he's not about to do it now. He can do what he wants. |
FusilierDan | 20 Jan 2021 5:40 p.m. PST |
John I couldn't help but think CASTLES DON'T HAVE PHONES A$$#@%%. I try to use my cellphone for it's main use. An alarm clock and being told to pick up something for dinner. |
Tango01 | 21 Jan 2021 12:32 p.m. PST |
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